On 10/20/2011 01:54 PM, Nathan wrote:
> Norman Gray wrote:
>> Ugh: 'IR' and 'NIR' are ugly obscurantist terms (though reasonable in
>> their original context). Wouldn't 'Bytes' and 'Thing', respectively,
>> be better (says he, plaintively)?
>
> Both are misleading, since NIR is the set of all things, and IR is a
> proper subset of NIR, it doesn't make much sense to label it "non
> information resource(s)" when it does indeed contain information
> resources. From that perspective "IR" and "R" makes somewhat more sense.
>
+1
See also:
http://infoserviceonto.smiy.org/2010/11/25/on-resources-information-resources-and-documents/
;)
Cheers,
Bo
PS: also +1 for Content-Location header + people expect to get some
information when resolving a URI